{"id":21672,"date":"2016-10-05T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/one-mans-secret-to-longevity-golf\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:52:57","slug":"one-mans-secret-to-longevity-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/one-mans-secret-to-longevity-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"One Man’s Secret to Longevity… Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a month when the world’s most popular (arguably) senior golfer died, another ageless enthusiast on the other side of the world celebrated a milestone anniversary – and offered some wise counsel on life. Phillip Pinnell turned 100 a week before Arnold Palmer sadly passed away at 87 and was, understandably, asked to reveal the secret to his longevity. <\/p>\n

“I love the game… and I love to play good golf,” he told the Messenger newspaper in Adelaide (South Australia). Mr Pinnell started playing golf eight decades ago while a teenager and still plays at least once a week at the Glenelg Golf Course, where he is the club’s oldest playing member. He said he had been in “fairly good health” most of his life. <\/p>\n

The World War II veteran enjoyed birthday celebrations with his family – including a golf-playing daughter and son aged 63 and 68, respectively – and was later treated by residents to a surprise party at his retirement village home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a month when the world’s most popular (arguably) senior golfer died, another ageless enthusiast on the other side of the world celebrated a milestone anniversary – and offered some wise counsel on life. Phillip Pinnell turned 100 a week before Arnold Palmer sadly passed away at 87 and was, understandably, asked to reveal the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}